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Kailee Pedersen
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THE MINIMALIST (St. Martin's, '26)
PASTORALE (Burnside Review '25)
SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS (St. Martin’s + Titan '24)

writer/opera singer/swe | 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇳 adoptee | she/her
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Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social · Aug 21
Unbelievably excited to share this update to my fall events for the paperback release of SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS!

4 states, a return to my hometown in Nebraska 🌽, and some amazing conversations await!

Thank you to the bookstores and fellow writers for having me!
SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS paperback events with Kailee Pedersen Fountain Bookstore August 28th at 6pm ET - Richmond, VA with Fountain Bookseller Charlie Marks The World's Borough Bookshop September 4th at 7pm ET - Queens, NY with Clay McLeod Chapman Brooklyn Books & Booze at Barrow's Intense September 17th at 7pm ET - Brooklyn, NY reading with Randee Dawn, Liz Gotauco, and David Mack Barnes & Noble (The Crossings at Smithfield) October 26th at 2pm ET - Smithfield, RI with Paul Tremblay Sower Books November 14th at 7pm CT - Lincoln, NE
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Join me at Sower Books @sowerbooksne.bsky.social this Friday to discuss SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS! This is my first ever book event in my hometown and I'm beyond excited to be doing it at a wonderful indie bookstore. Can't wait to chat all things Midwestern, Gothic, and spooky! 👻🌽
Sower Books 914 N 70th Street, Lincoln, NE 68505 Kailee Pedersen - Nov 14 at 7pm author of Sacrificial Animals (cover features a red fox on black background)
November 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I did my first ever school visit yesterday at my old high school in Nebraska. The students were so sweet and asked really thoughtful questions. I hope they feel encouraged to pursue their artistic dreams, in whatever form they may come, and I'm excited for what the future holds for them. 😊
A mug filled with pastel-colored pens on top of a piece of paper that reads "Thank you - your visit helps inspire future writers and readers alike! We appreciate your time and efforts." stacked on top of a black journal.
November 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Had a wonderful time talking all things queer & BIPOC spookiness with my friend Briana Cox on The Dark Mind podcast hosted by Vince Midgard! 👻

Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvGr...
The Dark Mind podcast hosted by Vince Midgard, displaying the track playing in a mocked-up audio player. "Voice, Violence & Visceral Fiction: Briana Cox & Kailee Pedersen on Craft".
November 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Today's the day! 🙏✨
kaileepedersen.bsky.social Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social · 7d
Can’t believe I’m going back to my high school to speak to the creative writing club. Feels really full circle. Growing up queer, Asian & adopted in Nebraska wasn’t always the easiest, but I hope I can encourage young Nebraskans in the arts, even in a small way.
November 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Reviving this thread post- #Frankenstein watch if anybody else is in the Gothic mood
kaileepedersen.bsky.social Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social · Sep 19
Tomorrow is my Pamina debut in a local production of The Magic Flute, and with spooky season fast approaching I thought I'd recommend some particularly haunted operas. With an emphasis on Jewish and LGBTQ+ composers & librettists, these five Gothic operas 👻 are among my favorites in the repertoire!
Five Gothic Operas for Spooky Season Listening
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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did you know that intercountry #adoptees born before 1983 have no guarantee of US citizenship, and instead are treated as immigrants who must obtain citizenship through naturalization? That they are subject to deportation if they have committed a crime or are deemed to be in the US “illegally?”
“Citizenship for All Intercountry Adoptees” in the style of the “Zohran for New York City” campaign logo
November 9, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Can’t believe I’m going back to my high school to speak to the creative writing club. Feels really full circle. Growing up queer, Asian & adopted in Nebraska wasn’t always the easiest, but I hope I can encourage young Nebraskans in the arts, even in a small way.
November 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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I'm back in my home state of Nebraska next week! 🌽 Catch me and my queer Midwestern Gothic novel SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS on Friday, Nov 14th for a spooky author event at Sower Books and Saturday, Nov 15th at the Nebraska Book Awards!

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Events for Kailee Pedersen, author of Sacrificial Animals Nov 14 at 7pm - Author Event: Kailee Pedersen & Sacrificial Animals at Sower Books Nov 15 at 11am - Nebraska Book Awards: Author Roundtable at UNL Ubuntu Room Nov 15 at 3:15pm - Nebraska Book Awards: Awards Open House at UNL Heritage Suite Nov 15 at 4:30pm - Nebraska Book Awards: Awards Presentations at UNL Swanson Auditorium Sower Books 914 N 70th Street, Lincoln, NE 68505 Kailee Pedersen - Nov 14 at 7pm author of Sacrificial Animals (cover features a red fox on black background) Kailee Pedersen Nebraska Book Award (Fiction Honor) for Sacrificial Animals November 15, 2025 Author Roundtable 11am - Ubuntu Room Awards Open House 3:15pm - Heritage Suite Awards Presentations 4:30pm - Swanson Auditorium
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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they keep letting me write things for some reason! anyway, here’s gothic horror (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...
Gothic Fiction: A Starter Pack
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October 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Check out this article in the New York Times @nytimes.com by @emilyhughes.bsky.social for a tour of literature's deliciously distressing, tenebrous, and grotesque Gothic texts. Honored to see the Midwestern familial rot and ruination of SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS among them! 🦊👻 @stmartinspress.bsky.social
The New York Times - Gothic Fiction: A Starter Pack by Emily C. Hughes With roots in the 18th century, this haunted genre's hallmarks can be found throughout modern horror. Here's where to start. Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen. Cover features a red fox on black background. When Nick and his brother, Joshua, return to their family farm to visit their estranged, dying father, Nick doesn’t expect much in the way of reconciliation. What he does find is an unexpected connection with Joshua’s wife, Emilia, a Chinese woman with hidden motivations and strange ties to a pivotal act of violence from Nick’s past. In this polished debut — what I might call “frontier Gothic” — the stark landscape of rural Nebraska is shot through with calcified familial hatred and a vibrant strain of Chinese folklore. If you read it and love it, try … Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian”; “Lone Women,” by Victor LaValle; or “Daughters Unto Devils,” by Amy Lukavics.
October 30, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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A nice time! I highly recommend Kaliee’s SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS and looking forward to next year’s The Minimalist.
kaileepedersen.bsky.social Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social · 18d
Had the loveliest afternoon at B&N Smithfield with @paultremblay.bsky.social! Thank you to the B&N team for having us and to everyone who came out for the discussion and Q&A!
Kailee Pedersen, left, wearing a floral shirt, holding a copy of Sacrificial Animals. Paul Tremblay, right, wearing a plaid shirt, holding a copy of Horror Movie. A poster advertising the event "Knife Hands & Fox Tales", an afternoon in conversation with Kailee Pedersen and Paul Tremblay. A stack of novels, with Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay on top, Sacrificial Animals and The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen beneath.
October 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Another photo I forgot to include! 🦊👻
Stacks of the novel Sacrificial Animals beneath a sign advertising an author event for Kailee Pedersen and Paul Tremblay.
October 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Had the loveliest afternoon at B&N Smithfield with @paultremblay.bsky.social! Thank you to the B&N team for having us and to everyone who came out for the discussion and Q&A!
Kailee Pedersen, left, wearing a floral shirt, holding a copy of Sacrificial Animals. Paul Tremblay, right, wearing a plaid shirt, holding a copy of Horror Movie. A poster advertising the event "Knife Hands & Fox Tales", an afternoon in conversation with Kailee Pedersen and Paul Tremblay. A stack of novels, with Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay on top, Sacrificial Animals and The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen beneath.
October 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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New Englanders, reminder this is tomorrow in Smithfield. Come hang out, and maybe bring cookies. I like cookies.
kaileepedersen.bsky.social Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social · 21d
Unbelievably excited for this event with Paul Tremblay at Barnes & Noble on Sunday! It'll be my first time in Rhode Island talking all things horror, cursed films, Gothic Midwestern estates, and more 🙂👻 @barnesandnoble.com @paultremblay.bsky.social

More info: tinyurl.com/2wnkexvj
October 26, 2pm ET Barnes & Noble (The Crossings at Smithfield) Paul Tremblay, author of HORROR MOVIE & Kailee Pedersen, author of SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS, in conversation.
October 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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and it’s been far too long since i last recommended the #adoptees feed, which can help you to understand why many of us regard adoption not as a solution but as a problem (a whole host of problems).

i’m so grateful to everyone who posts to this feed. if you would like to post here too, let me know.
October 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Join us Sunday!
kaileepedersen.bsky.social Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social · 21d
Unbelievably excited for this event with Paul Tremblay at Barnes & Noble on Sunday! It'll be my first time in Rhode Island talking all things horror, cursed films, Gothic Midwestern estates, and more 🙂👻 @barnesandnoble.com @paultremblay.bsky.social

More info: tinyurl.com/2wnkexvj
October 26, 2pm ET Barnes & Noble (The Crossings at Smithfield) Paul Tremblay, author of HORROR MOVIE & Kailee Pedersen, author of SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS, in conversation.
October 23, 2025 at 3:22 PM
kaileepedersen.bsky.social
Unbelievably excited for this event with Paul Tremblay at Barnes & Noble on Sunday! It'll be my first time in Rhode Island talking all things horror, cursed films, Gothic Midwestern estates, and more 🙂👻 @barnesandnoble.com @paultremblay.bsky.social

More info: tinyurl.com/2wnkexvj
October 26, 2pm ET Barnes & Noble (The Crossings at Smithfield) Paul Tremblay, author of HORROR MOVIE & Kailee Pedersen, author of SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS, in conversation.
October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Ditmas Lit is tonight! @nytimes.com raves that reader @kaileepedersen.bsky.social’s novel Sacrificial Animals, “Establishes Pedersen as a future master of speculative fiction.” www.nytimes.com/2024/08/30/b...
3 New Horror Novels Full of Terrors That Are All Too Real (Published 2024)
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October 22, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Tomorrow! Come see me and three other wonderful authors read with @ditmaslit.bsky.social!
October 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Catch me at the Writer's Digest Horror Writing Virtual Conference this Saturday, 10/18 at 7pm discussing the ins and outs of debuting!

Sign up here: writersdigestuniversity.mykajabi.com/horror-writi...

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Writer's Digest Horror Writing Virtual Conference Things I Wish I Knew Before I Debuted October 18th, 7pm Eastern by Kailee Pedersen, author of Sacrificial Animals. Sacrificial Animals cover features a red fox on a black background. Kailee Pedersen is an Asian woman with brown hair wearing red lipstick and a pink shirt.
October 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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She's adopted, so her looks and her name don't match. 🤬🥚
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29d
ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬
ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name
She even had her U.S. passport on her.
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October 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Catch me at the Writer's Digest Horror Writing Virtual Conference this Saturday, 10/18 at 7pm discussing the ins and outs of debuting!

Sign up here: writersdigestuniversity.mykajabi.com/horror-writi...

@writersdigest.bsky.social
Writer's Digest Horror Writing Virtual Conference Things I Wish I Knew Before I Debuted October 18th, 7pm Eastern by Kailee Pedersen, author of Sacrificial Animals. Sacrificial Animals cover features a red fox on a black background. Kailee Pedersen is an Asian woman with brown hair wearing red lipstick and a pink shirt.
October 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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are there foxes in Stardew Valley, asking for a friend
Stardew Valley character creation showing a character named Nick with the farm name "StagsCrossing Farm" and the favorite thing "bad decisions."
October 11, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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The next Ditmas Lit is Wed. Oct. 22! We’re excited to welcome readers @megancummins.bsky.social, Tierney
Oberhammer, @kaileepedersen.bsky.social, and Anna Rasche. RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...
Ditmas Lit | The Urbane
A monthly reading series in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of emerging and established writers in all genres. Doors at 7:30, show at 8pm.
www.urbanebrooklyn.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Digital galleys of my second novel, THE MINIMALIST, are now available on Edelweiss!

“To compose is among the bitterest of self-mutilations..."

Request here: www.edelweiss.plus#sku=1250328276
eGalleys on Edelweiss available now for Kailee Pedersen's THE MINIMALIST. Cover features an Asian woman's face inside the silhouette of a piano. The Minimalist by Kailee Pedersen - out in hardcover August 18, 2026 Cover features an Asian woman's face inside the silhouette of a piano. Novel includes: classical music psychodrama; gruesome, unsettling, queer elements; vibes of Tár and The Piano Teacher; a descent into madness; a bisexual protagonist; Asian adoptee issues; and 20th century Jewish composers.
October 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM